Understanding decentralised control of resource allocation in a minimal multi-agent system

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1251-1253

  Jacyno, Mariusz ^a   Bullock, Seth ^a   Payne, Terry ^a   Luck, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES; DECENTRALISED CONTROLS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; IT VENDORS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; ON DEMANDS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; UTILITY COMPUTING;

AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 60349088912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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